Scott Sheriff
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[Mark Suszko] “I need the JVC/Taio Yuden brand “100-year” type archival quality gold or gold/silver DVD-R blanks, and they need to be inkjet printable, which seems to make the sourcing a little more challenging. Any links?”
https://www.taperesources.com/TY-DVD-WPPSB16-WS.html
Maybe try discmakers, or tapeonline too, they used to have Taiyo Yuden discs.
If your not getting good search results try ‘JVC/ TAIYO YUDEN’. I think you were missing a Y.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Chris Harlan] ” He has an innate presence.”
How can one have an innate presence?
Innate means to come by knowledge naturally, to have a natural born skill, or be instinctively good at something.
Did you mean inane, which means pointless, annoying, or lacking sense?
Because he is certainly that.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[shawn Bockoven] “Not sure where you are going with this??? We didn’t need to fix the shutter.”
He might be saying CCD is much easier to fix in this type of situation, and have it come out OK. Which it is.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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What exactly are you trying to do? Windows is an operating system. It has no use for the footage from the camera. You need an application that is designed to diplay, play, or edit digital video. And in this case on that can deal with HDV.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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[grinner hester] “I usually word it something like, “I can do the whole enchelada(sic) and have it to ya by the end of tomorrow for 2500 bucks.””
I was wondering if you would accept either an invoice, or a estimate from a contractor, plumber, mechanic, etc that was written like that?
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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[Mark Suszko] ” you could think about how you edit scenes like that, how you play up or play down the significance of the symbolic object, what cutting techniques you use to make the object more or less important.”
This is true. But people often take this to a ridiculous extreme, or see symbolism where non was intended.
I’m more in the “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” camp on symbolism.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Jon Fidler] “Plus doesnt all this stuff just add up so its one overall meaning per shot anyway, its made out to sound so over complicated in these theory books and to me it sounds like something you could sum up in about thirty seconds.”
+5 for that!
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Mark Suszko] “I don’t mean to say you can only learn these tricks in a formal film school. If you’re an auto-didact, you can do the independent reading yourself, watch all the movies and study them, yourself, and learn a LOT. ANd a good liberal arsts and sciences background is exceptionally sueful in all kinds of way you wouldn’t expect for a video editor. I think the frosting on that cake though is sharing what you think with others and testing your assumptions against theirs, to see if they hold true. That sometimes pretentious-sounding debating really does serve a purpose.”
I really don’t think you need a 4 year degree to understand what schmaltz is, or how to add more ompf to a scene. If you can last a year or two in a working environment with other pro’s, you will learn ten times more useful items, then you will in the average school program. I have had interns in their third year from well known schools that didn’t know what the term ‘3 point lighting’ meant, but they could prattle on about ‘the meaning’ of the dolly-zoom in Vertigo. Duh. Do I need a degree to get the meaning of that shot?
Over the 30 years or so I have done this, dozens of my interns, and hundreds of colleagues have come and gone. Of those with a 4 year film school degree that actually had a career and stayed in the biz, I could count on one hand with fingers left over. Most had a ‘day job’ in 5 years, or less. Those that had no degree of any kind, or a BA in Mass Comm or other light-weight subjects seemed to do better, with long careers in the biz.
It seemed like there was a direct connection to how ‘arty’ someone was, and how well they worked out in the real world. It seemed to me some folks would rather talk about film, than actually make one because it is hard work and the majority of the ‘philosophers’ seemed rather lazy, and were better at talking than doing. I always told the interns, if your on a gig as a grip or a PA, be the best damn PA there is. Don’t spend a lot of time debating style with the AD, or telling the DP how to light, or asking to look in the frame. Just do your job, and do it well. And for god sake don’t show up on time, be there early! The arty film school kids almost always did the exact opposite of this.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Richard Clark] “Wow Rocco! I read, have done since I was a kid. Adventure, mystery, romance, political, classics. I have a couple of books on editing, I am sure one is by Walter Murch. Flicked a few pages, found nothing to change my thinking, style or direction. Never believed in theory. Never had a professor. My study of autuers was via film festivals and collecting the classics. i learned film editing off a guy my own age who never went to High School, possibly the best editor I have ever met. Instinct for story telling. Having a point of view. Building a body of work. Not suffering fools, even my self 🙂 90% of the media I have edited has challenged and inspired me to make something more, take it further, surprise, pleasantly, the client. The way to learn from people like Walter Murch is to study the films they worked on and little by little take what you like, leave the rest, start introducing it into your work, take a risk. Editing has been an awesome journey of over 40 years, I continue today. My goal is to bring my sensibilities to the table and so far directors and clients seem to approve. Have you considered other careers? think about it.”
I have to agree with this. You can learn a lot just by watching, both other peoples stuff, and your own. But you have to know how to watch. IMO this would be a better use of time than discussing the social ramifications of film, unless you’re going to be a lifer at PBS. And that is something it seems like the newer guys don’t have a clue how to do. There is a huge amount of “There’s this cool video with ______ transition/effect/look/lighting, how do I ______?” posts on the cow. I think this illustrates most don’t know how to deconstruct what they are seeing in other peoples work, or do any critical viewing. When I was starting out, this was one of only ways to learn. There was no internet, forums, or comprehensive how-to books, behind the scenes DVD’s, or free tutorials. And when you got OTJ training from other editors, you were certainly not going to learn all their secrets.
While slightly OT, one of the things I find ironic, is that a lot of shooters/editors that have come up in the NLE generation seem to fancy themselves as these film uber-geeks. Sitting around coffee shops with their Macbook Pro, talking about film theory, and storytelling. Then they will run around ‘filming’ with their 5D’s, espousing the virtues of shooting video at 24fps to ‘get the film look’, but then slather on intrusive and unmotivated camera moves/lighting/FX/transitions that call attention to themselves and completely distract from the story they are supposedly trying to tell in their ‘film’. So I’m not sure all that discussion of theory is doing much good at all.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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For STP, or GB any autotune plugin that is AU will work. Antares has one, but there are others if you poke around. GB has a basic autotune like function built into it.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?